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From: "Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" on 21 Oct 2009 00:35 "Dave C." <noway(a)nohow.never> wrote in message news:20091020230923.ddef028e.noway(a)nohow.never... > >> >> None of the tractors, including mine, in our three flatbed >> divisions have that. > > I'm sorry to hear that. IMHO, none of the tractors in your fleet are > properly equipped to pull flatbed. -Dave We've had lots of your "honest opinions". -- -- Popeye "If one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lector. www.finalprotectivefire.com http://picasaweb.google.com/Popeye8762
From: Brent on 21 Oct 2009 08:25 On 2009-10-21, Otto Yamamoto <roscoe(a)yamamoto.cc> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:51:04 +0000, Brent wrote: > >> What lies would that be? The combined goal of the two party is system is >> clearly national socialism and a fascist economic system. Some people >> only see parts of that goal, but it doesn't make it lies, just partial >> truth. > > Forgive me for being concrete here, but there's no such thing as a > 'partial truth'. It's an attempt to obfuscate and deceive, just the same. No, not when people only see some it. The way people's energies are channeled into 'red' team and 'blue' means that people see the components the team opposite of them is doing but not what their own team is doing. > And it doesn't really matter what you call it, because the end is to > concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few, while maintaining > the happy illusion among the population that they, too, have power and > wealth.
From: hancock4 on 21 Oct 2009 09:47 On Oct 20, 11:12 pm, Otto Yamamoto <ros...(a)yamamoto.cc> wrote: > > There are extremists on both sides of the aisle today in US politics, > > and it seems they're growing in influence. > > That's an illusion. The 'extremists' that you see fall pretty much within > a narrow band. However, they're loud and furious and generate a lot of > smoke and heat, so it looks like there's something going on, while in > actuality, the status quo is being maintained. The > 'liberal'/'conservative' paradigm is actually a sybiosis: take away one > 'side' and the other would cease to exist. I hope you're right. But it seems these days too many everday people get wrapped up in extreme positions. During the Bush years liberals blamed anything and everything, like late pizza delivery, on Bush. Today, conservatives blame it all on Obama.
From: jim on 21 Oct 2009 10:23 Brent wrote: > > On 2009-10-21, Otto Yamamoto <roscoe(a)yamamoto.cc> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:51:04 +0000, Brent wrote: > > > >> What lies would that be? The combined goal of the two party is system is > >> clearly national socialism and a fascist economic system. Some people > >> only see parts of that goal, but it doesn't make it lies, just partial > >> truth. > > > > Forgive me for being concrete here, but there's no such thing as a > > 'partial truth'. It's an attempt to obfuscate and deceive, just the same. > > No, not when people only see some it. The way people's energies are > channeled into 'red' team and 'blue' means that people see the > components the team opposite of them is doing but not what their own > team is doing. Except that other than rhetoric neither side ever actually does anything, because they are effectively neutralized. So no, they never see what the team opposite of them is doing. -jim > > > And it doesn't really matter what you call it, because the end is to > > concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few, while maintaining > > the happy illusion among the population that they, too, have power and > > wealth.
From: "Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" on 21 Oct 2009 13:52
<hancock4(a)bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message news:77c00328-4728-4f1f-bf7d-f4bf36931d0b(a)b18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... On Oct 20, 11:12 pm, Otto Yamamoto <ros...(a)yamamoto.cc> wrote: > > There are extremists on both sides of the aisle today in US politics, > > and it seems they're growing in influence. > > That's an illusion. The 'extremists' that you see fall pretty much within > a narrow band. However, they're loud and furious and generate a lot of > smoke and heat, so it looks like there's something going on, while in > actuality, the status quo is being maintained. The > 'liberal'/'conservative' paradigm is actually a sybiosis: take away one > 'side' and the other would cease to exist. I hope you're right. But it seems these days too many everday people get wrapped up in extreme positions. During the Bush years liberals blamed anything and everything, like late pizza delivery, on Bush. Today, conservatives blame it all on Obama. What the liberals did, in their desperation and inability to win an election, was to defile the prestige of the Presidency for their own political gain, right down to their aid and comfort to our enemies. The rules are set now, and the Right didn't start them. -- -- Popeye "If one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lector. www.finalprotectivefire.com http://picasaweb.google.com/Popeye8762 |